Old logging camp / railroad site

[paleo_joe]

Walked a lake this afternoon that had been drawn way down. Didn't find one speck of flint but did come across what looks like an old logging camp, perhaps from the turn of the century. They would install temporary railroad to get the logs out and this may be where the logs got to the river to then float to the mill. Horseshoes and railroad ties, but the coolest is the hitching post hardware in the upper right.

[paleo_joe]

upper left, i mean.

[DesertWalker]

Great stuff! Would love to get in there with the metal detector!

[paleo_joe]

I'm really happy. My daughter sees this stuff and wants me to take her down there. She is 14 and pretty much her whole focus is boys, texting, clothes and finding places for us to drive her to and from. I figured she'd walk around, get bored, complain about the mud, want to go back. Instead, she finds the nicest piece of the day - a Little Rock Ark Coke bottle from 1950 - and some other nice stuff that I missed. She has an eye for spotting artifacts!! And then wants to take the long rugged way home. The apple does not fall far from the tree

[Mud Hawk]

paleo_joe, that is really cool. A trolly used to run across the front of my home back in the early 1900's (maybe a little earlier?) I pick these up in the same field I relic hunt:

[jeremywilliams]

This is great, the house I am in now is on an 1800's logging camp site. I have found the grade they used for the log trains, just some spikes and bottles. I have yet to hit it with a detector.

[bigbeck1817]

thats great stuff. i glad to see that u bonded with your daughter, that creates nice memorys.

[paleo_joe]

Well I have been obsessed with this lake and have walked about 25 miles of the shore so far, at least by my crude mapping with Google Earth. It's all undeveloped and very few roads into it, so I get to cover long stretches with no traces of people. Maybe the first person through since the lake was built in the 50s. It is alternating boulder fields and mud flats.

I found one isolated scallorn point and then another site which has turned up 4 or 5 broken pieces. But that's been it. And the place where I found the flint is right by the highway maybe 10 min from my house.

There were roads and boat docks and a railroad all on the river before it was flooded and I get to see all that. Found a bulldozer or something that was left behind and now it looks like a dinosaur skeleton after being underwater for 50 years.

Came on some huge tracks in the mud, large as my hand, from something hunting the herds of deer that are down there since hunting is prohibited. I thought it was a cougar at the time but after googling and studying the pics now I think it was just a really large dog. I got a little rush every time I knelt down with my back to the woods to wash a bottle.

The main thing has been pop and beer bottles. I've picked up a good collection of Coke Bottles, NuGrapes and so on from the 40s and early 50s. One huge difference between pop bottles and arrowheads is that pop bottles get really heavy!!! I'm making a bottle tree in my backyard.

[Flyjunkie]

I like these Historical artifacts, I find some at one of the local Village sites i hunt.. nothing extensive (because I think most of it has been removed) but a few odds & ends....
Thanks for posting these photos, very interesting....